Brain-training exercises can improve your cognitive skills, including working memory, verbal memory, and global functioning. Challenging yourself with new activities can also improve brain functioning through a process called neuroplasticity, in which the brain forms new neural pathways and connections.

14 Brain Exercises for All Ages

1. Do Jigsaw Puzzles

Completing a jigsaw puzzle can be a fun solo or group activity. Research shows that when done long-term, jigsaw puzzles also improve visuospatial cognitive skills, such as:

Constructional praxis

Episodic memory

Mental rotation

Mental speed and flexibility

Perception

Reasoning

Working memory

What Is Neuroplasticity?

Neuroplasticity is the modifiability of the brain, through changes in neuron numbers, control, migration, f

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